Caleb Stine is now Dr. Caleb Stine! Congratulations!
Graduate student Caleb Stine successfully defended his PhD on April 30 on his compendium of tools that he has developed to measure, model and manipulate fluid flow in glioma. As the first Virginia Tech PhD from the Munson Lab, he passed with flying colors and we are so proud of all he has accomplished. Dr. Stine will continue as a postdoc in the lab to complete the work he's started and we couldn't be happier that he isn't going to leave us quite yet. Pictures also feature hi
Lymphatics are altered by chemotherapy--new paper out!
After two years of peer review and many edits and lots of love, our publication showing that carboplatin chemotherapy can increase lymphangiogenesis and that this lymphangiogenesis can prime tissues for metastatic spread of breast cancer is published at Frontiers Oncology as part of their special collection on Women in Breast Cancer Research. Graduate student Ali Harris began this work in 2016, working with collaborators across the University of Virginia to show that this lym
Publication out in NPJ Precision Oncology
We have finally published our work on the development of a patient-designed 3D tissue engineered system for the study of glioblastoma. This publication began eight years ago with our first graduate student Jessica Yuan at UVa. We describe how we use patient cellular ratios to recreate tissue environments and show that the addition or removal of these cells in the context of different patient-derived glioma stem cell lines can alter invasion, proliferation, and stem-like popul
Dr. Monet Roberts will start her own lab in January 2023!
Dr. Roberts has accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. The Roberts Glyco-Diversity Lab will open up in January 2023. We are so excited for her to start her own group but still be just down the road in Blacksburg.